Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

SAVING EXPENSE OF REMTrrING THE
MONEY. CONSULT YOUR OWN INTEREST
BY CALLING on THEN BEFORE CON
TRACING FOR A LOAN ON YOUR FARM.
All the latest styles in spring hats at
Wood Il Vincent's. 80
Pearson Il Co. have several frst-class
farms in this county for rent. 80
The Sunday freight now carries a
passenger coach instead of caboOse.
The Willing Workers will meet at
Mr.. Mulkey's this, Wednesday, after
noon.
Miss Carrie d. Anderson of Winfield,
is here visiting her sister. Mrs. w. NJ.
Bronson.
VIM. Lindsey has gone to Colorado
to look up location. lie expects to
move his family from here IN a few
weeks.
Two buildings, the Lovejoy- Glass
cock store and the OrwiD building,
were unroOfed at Kiowa last Thursday
by the wind.
Prof. Palmer's "Pinafore" class will
meet for practice at his residence to-
morrow night. 1t is expected that this
opera will be presented inside of four
weeks.
The pupils i'm the Elm Mills school
celebrated WashingtOn's birthday, yes
terday, with appropriate ceremonies,
i m n of haf
w. B. Rockley.
Notwithstanding the saloons are
closed and the drug stores are selling
strictly in accordance with law, in this
city, scarcely day passes but drunken
men are seen on the streets. Why il itp
G.. w. GOudy. brother-in-law of l.
Il. Slack, of the Elm Creek country,
was here this week from Burlingame.
lie is a builder and contractor and
thinks something of locating here.
Are people born blind and deformed
on account of the sins of their ances-
torsY" will be Rev. w. ii. Gillam's sub
| ject at the NJ. f. church next Sabbath
morning. Special subject in the even
ing. All are welcome.
Judge Hardy performed two mar
riage ceremonies last Friday. w. p.
Lacey and Miss Nancy b. Jacket, both
of Lake City township, took each
other for better or worse. VIM. G..
Henry, of IIazelton, aud Miss Emma
+. Armstrong, of Roundup was the
other couple.
Another cotton meeting will be held
next Saturday afternoon at the police
court room. a speech will be made by
Judge McCandless, who has had much
experience i'm cotton raising in the
south. Arrangements VIII be made for
getting seed. Everyone interested
should be present.
Commissioner Cook and c. T. Free
man while in Kansas City last week or
dered the necessary furniture for the
court house, including stand for the
judge. For the present, the chairs now
In use in the court room will be used.
The iron ceiling for the jail room will
be here in n few days.
The lecture by Mai. Golf, Monday
night. for the benefit of the G.. y. II.
post. of this city, was listened to by an
attentive and apprecIative audience.
The excitement OH the streets, over
the result of the bond election, kept
many away from the lecture who 9TH
erwise would have been there.
The Harper Sentinel suggests the fol-
lowing obituary notice as being appro-
pirate for some of their citizens: ''Be-
meath this stone there rests a man
who'll keep on kicking all he can; he
kicked while he remained on earth,
commencing at the hour of birth; he
kicked so hard, he kicked so high, his
heels would sometimes scrape the sky.
And when he reaches Heavens gates.
he'll kick because no street-car waits
and when a silver harp he'll hold, he'll
kick because il isn't gold"
At Harper, last Friday afternoon, a
young man named VIM. III. Knox, who
formerly lived at this place, and a
young man named Chas. Dougherty, of
COwley county, were both riding horse
through the streets, at a rapid gait,
when the animal lost his footing and
fell, throwing the riders to the ground,
each hitting on his head. Dougherty's
skull was crushed and he died Saturday
morning. Knox was rendered uncOn-
scious, but will likely recover. Both
were drinking and having big time"
One of Riley Lakes stages, driven by
Keno, was accidently overturned on
Kansas avenue, west, last Saturday af-
ternoon, when he was making sweep
ing turn. In the vehicle there were
four men, three passengers for the west
and a young man named T. a. Holdings
worth, friend of Keno, who was riding
to the depot. When the vehicle turned
over. the jar broke his hip bone. DIR.
Lockwood attended the injured man,
and OH Sunday started with him on the
train to Oxford, Sumner county, his
home. The passengers we're not hurt.
Last Friday, new trial was granted
in the case of the state against Isaac
Steele, charged with felOnious assault
on Theodore Beers, last May. 1t will
be remembered that at the trial of this
case two weeks ago, the jury returned
a verdict of guilty of felonious assault.
Counsel for defendant moved for a new
trial on the ground that the jury took
to their room the bloody shirt and
pants which Beers wore when shot,
this not being permissible. Other
grounds were set up; but this was the
principal reason for asking for the new
trial.
Now that the railroad bonds have